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Western Canon Western Canon “If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all. The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves. The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one’s own growing inner self. Reading deeply in the Canon will not make one a better or worse person, a more useful or more harmful citizen. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one’s own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one’s confrontation with one’s own mortality.” − The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Harold Bloom The School of Resentment The late Harold Bloom (1930-2019), Professor of Humanities, Yale University, coined the term "The Schools of Resentment" (TSOR) in the 1970s to describe those who are preoccupied with political social activism and social change at the expense of aesthetic values. According to Bloom TSOR is associated with Marxist critical theory, including African American studies, Marxist literary criticism, New Historicist criticism, feminist criticism, and poststructuralism — specifically as promoted by Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Bloom contends that TSOR threatens the nature of the canon itself and may lead to its eventual demise. Philosopher Richard Rorty agreed that Bloom is at least partly accurate in describing TSOR, writing that those identified by Bloom do in fact routinely use "subversive, oppositional discourse" to attack the canon specifically and Western culture in general. TSOR argue that some works of the Western Canon promote sexist, racist or otherwise biased values and should therefore be removed from the canon. Bloom continues: “The cardinal principle of the current TSOR can be stated with singular bluntness: what is called aesthetic value emanates from class struggle. This principle is so broad that it cannot be wholly refuted. I myself insist that the individual self is the only method and the whole standard for apprehending aesthetic value…my meditation upon literature is…vulnerable to the most traditional Marxist analyses of class interest. “I have enjoyed TSOR’s repeated insistence that my notion of ‘the anxiety of influence’ applies only to Dead White European Males, and not to women and to what we quaintly term “multiculturalists”. Thus, feminist cheerleaders proclaim that women writers lovingly cooperate with one another as quilt makers, while African-American and Chicano literary activists go even further in asserting their freedom from any anguish of contamination whatsoever: each of them is Adam early in the morning. They know no time when they were not as they are now; self-created, self-begot, their puissance (strength, power) is their own.” Literary Analysis The value of extensive literary analysis has been questioned by several prominent artists. Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that good readers do not read books, and particularly those which are considered to be literary masterpieces, "for the academic purpose of indulging in generalizations". At a 1986 Copenhagen conference of James Joyce scholars, the late Stephen J. Joyce (the modernist writer's grandson, 1932-2020) said, "If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry." In his epic book “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages” (1994) Professor Bloom has done a ‘hero’s work’ in the analysis and categorization of canonical western literature. Bloom’s Canon includes over 700 authors encompassing over two dozen countries. His erudite analysis breaks down the Western Canon into four major ‘Ages’: Bloom’s Four Ages 1) Theocratic Age (20000BC - 1321AD) (1321: death of Dante) 2) Aristocratic Age (1321-1832) (1832: death of Goethe) 3) Democratic Age (1832-1900) American and Russian literature appear on stage. 4) Chaotic Age (20th Century – present) Themes & The Four Ages The theme of a novel or epic poem concerns a universal idea, lesson or message and the lessons we learn from life and people. In "The Three Little Pigs", for example, we learn that it's not wise to cut corners, like building a house out of straw. Examples of “100” classic canonical literature is presented in a matrix of ten major literary themes verses Bloom’s Four Ages. Theme percentage ranking is provided for perspective in addition to convenient hyperlinks for quick access to the review comments. 1) Good & Evil (17%). The coexistence of good and evil. Found alongside the themes of war, judgement and even love. Age Literature Medea (Euripides), Dialogues, The Republic (Plato), Nicomachean Ethics, Politics (Aristotle), Theocratic Aeneid (Virgil) The Divine Comedy (Dante), Hamlet, King Lear (Shakespeare), Paradise Lost (Milton), Faust Aristocratic (Goethe) Les Misérables (Hugo), Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), Democratic Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Brave New World (Huxley), Animal Farm (Orwell), The Trial, The Castle (Kafka), Chaotic Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill) 2) Deception (14%). This theme can take on many faces: physical or social - all about keeping secrets from others. Any mystery novel has some sort of deception. Age Literature Don Quixote (Cervantes), Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar Aristocratic (Shakespeare), Tartuffe (Moliere), Candide (Voltaire) Le Pere Griot (Balzac), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), A Doll’s House (Ibsen), Democratic Vanity Fair (Thackeray), The Moonstone (Collins), The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde), Moby Dick (Melville), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) Chaotic Waiting for Godot (Beckett), Main Street (Lewis), Anna Christie (O’Neill) 3) Suffering (14%). Physical and internal suffering. Age Literature Theocratic Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus), Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) Aristocratic Candide (Voltaire) Boule de Suif (Maupassant), Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), David Copperfield, The Adventures of Oliver Democratic Twist (Dickens), Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte), Crime & Punishment (Dostoevsky), The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov), The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) Jude the Obscure (Hardy), Babbitt (Lewis), The Hairy Ape (O’Neill), Native Son (Wright), Chaotic A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) 4) Judgment (12%). Characters are judged for being different or doing wrong, whether the infraction is real or just perceived as wrongdoing by others. Some stories prove that judgement does not always equal justice. Age Literature Theocratic Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus), Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) Aristocratic The Divine Comedy (Dante) Democratic The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov), The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) The Age of Reason (Sartre), Lord Jim (Conrad), Ethan Frome (Wharton), Main Street (Lewis), Chaotic The Iceman Cometh (O’Neill), The Sound & the Fury (Faulkner), Death of a Salesman (Miller) 5) Love (11%). Beyond the sultry romance novels (base love). Romantic Love: ‘courtly love’ beginning in the Middle Ages. Age Literature Theocratic Lysistrata (Aristophanes) Aristocratic Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) Le Pere Goriot (Balzac), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Pride & Prejudice (Austen), Ibsen Plays, Democratic Jane Eyre (C. Bronte), Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte), Of Human Bondage (W.S. Maugham), Anna Christie (O’Neill), Chaotic A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) 6) Heroism (11%). True or false heroic acts. Age Literature Theocratic Iliad, Odyssey (Homer), Aeneid (Virgil) Aristocratic Don Quixote (Cervantes), Le Morte D’Arthur (Malory) Democratic Ivanhoe (Scott), A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Chaotic Captains Courageous (Kipling), The Bridge (Crane), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway) 7) Coming of Age (6%). Growing up is not easy - reason why many books have this theme. Children or young adults mature through various events and learn valuable life lessons. Age Literature Aristocratic Candide (Voltaire) Democratic David Copperfield (Dickens) The Magic Mountain (Mann), This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Chaotic Salinger) 8) Peace & War (5%). The contradiction between peace and war. Age Literature Theocratic Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Peloponnesian Wars (Thucydides) Aristocratic The Prince (Machiavelli) Democratic War & Peace (Tolstoy) Chaotic Age of Innocence (Wharton), For Whom the Bells Tolls (Hemingway) 9) Survival (4%). Captivating stories where the protagonist must overcome countless odds. Age Literature Aristocratic Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) Democratic Moby Dick (Melville), Call of the Wild (London) Chaotic The Sound & the Fury (Faulkner), The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), 10) Circle of Life (3%). Life begins with birth and ends with death. Exploration of immortality. Age Literature Theocratic The Bible Aristocratic Gargantua & Pantagruel (Rabelais) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Death of Ivan Ilych (Tolstoy), Democratic The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fitzgerald) Chaotic Lazarus Laughed (O’Neill) WESTERN CANON: THE THEOCRATIC AGE (2000BCE – 1321CE) THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST The Epic of Gilgamesh Egyptian Book of the Dead Holy Bible (King James Version) Comments - The Bible Main Theme:
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